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chez

American  
[shey] / ʃeɪ /

preposition

French.
  1. at or in the home of; with.


chez British  
/ ʃe /

preposition

  1. at the home of

  2. with, among, or in the manner of

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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As now is often the case chez Disney, the meta-story here is more interesting than the film, which isn’t very good.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 27, 2025

Love, chez Sondheim, is treated as a dangerous substance that could explode or rot or evaporate altogether once you finally embrace it.

From New York Times Mar. 12, 2020

Rebecca Solnit attended a December holiday shindig at chez Freeman.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 12, 2018

Riffing on the same kind of regional differences that fired up France’s Bienvenue chez les Ch’tis in 2008, the sequel shifts its attention to Catalonia.

From The Guardian Nov. 23, 2015

The only trouble was that people who did not fall into any of those three categories were very liable to be told there was no one home, chez Barnes.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway

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